Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze / alcatel.de> writes: > But perhaps it is my non-native speaker feeling :-} I would > describe 'yield' as command to execute a given block. ... > But I would, however, describe 'proc' as *taking* a block and convert > it into a Proc instance. OK, I'll buy that. The change is posted. Dave -- Thomas Consulting. Innovative and successful developments with Unix, Java, C, and C++. Now in bookstores: The Pragmatic Programmer. www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ppbook/